CAHSS Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Innovation and Restoration: A History of Introductory Academic Writing at the University of Maryland
Book Title
Academic and Professional Writing in an Age of Accountability
ORCID ID
0000-0002-7673-8066
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9780809336913
Publication Date
12-27-2018
Editors
Shirley Wilson Logan, Wayne H. Slater
Keywords
introductory academic writing, University of Maryland, writing programs
Description
What current theoretical frameworks inform academic and professional writing? What does research tell us about the effectiveness of academic and professional writing programs? What do we know about existing best practices? What are the current guidelines and procedures in evaluating a program’s effectiveness? What are the possibilities in regard to future research and changes to best practices in these programs in an age of accountability? Editors Shirley Wilson Logan and Wayne H. Slater bring together leading scholars in rhetoric and composition to consider the history, trends, and future of academic and professional writing in higher education through the lens of these five central questions. The first two essays in the book provide a history of the academic and professional writing program at the University of Maryland. Subsequent essays explore successes and challenges in the establishment and development of writing programs at four other major institutions, identify the features of language that facilitate academic and professional communication, look at the ways digital practices in academic and professional writing have shaped how writers compose and respond to texts, and examine the role of assessment in curriculum and pedagogy. An afterword by distinguished rhetoric and composition scholars Jessica Enoch and Scott Wible offers perspectives on the future of academic and professional writing. This collection takes stock of the historical, rhetorical, linguistic, digital, and evaluative aspects of the teaching of writing in higher education. Among the critical issues addressed are how university writing programs were first established and what early challenges they faced, where writing programs were housed and who administered them, how the language backgrounds of composition students inform the way writing is taught, the ways in which current writing technologies create new digital environments, and how student learning and programmatic outcomes should be assessed.
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
City
Carbondale, IL
First Page
13
Last Page
23
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Social and Behavioral Sciences
NSUWorks Citation
Coogan, R., Donawerth, J., & Scanlon, M. J. (2018). Innovation and Restoration: A History of Introductory Academic Writing at the University of Maryland. Academic and Professional Writing in an Age of Accountability, 13-23. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facbooks/135
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